Concordance in Medical Consultations: A Critical Review

ISBN-13: 9781857758412 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 216 str.

Opis

Learning is most powerful when it is both hard work and fun. This usually means that it is interactive and based on experience challenging but at the same time possible. This book presents a wide variety of games activities and techniques that any teacher tutor or team leader can use to help others learn. Each of the chapters has a short introduction followed by several exercises that are interactive fun and will reinforce learning in knowledge skills and attitudes. The tools provided describe not only how to do an exercise but also when with whom what will make it work well what can go wrong and give insights into the impact it might make. The authors are experienced in leading teams planning and providing education and the tools are tried and tested in real teaching and learning situations. The ideas can be used in and across all disciplines and settings.

Spis treści

The medical construction of compliance. Evidence based medicine. The lay perspective. The doctor-patient relationship. The medical consultation. Patient participation and shared decision making in the consultation. The informed and expert patient. Satisfaction. Conclusion.

O autorze

Kristian Pollock is a senior research fellow in the School of Nursing at Nottingham University. She studied social anthropology at the Universities of Edinburgh and Cambridge and has carried out qualitative research in a range of health service settings. She has a particular interest in lay and professional constructions of illness and health, the social and personal significance of medicines, 'knowledge' as a resource in coping with illness and professional-patient interaction in medical consultations. Her interest in concordance developed during the course of a five-year Concordance Research Fellowship, funded by the Department of Health, which she held jointly with Janet Grime at the Department of Medicines Management at Keele University.